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Hair Transplant - Who Should Go For It?

Posted In: Dermatologist 2018-03-09 21

When we talk about hair loss both men and women are equally victimized may be due to androgenetic alopecia or pattern baldness. Hair restoration surgery, which is otherwise called as hair transplant surgery is the only solution for bringing back the lost hair when other medical hair restorations fail to offer you a good hair re-growth.

What is hair transplant?

It is a procedure in which hair follicles taken from already existing hair follicles are grafted to areas where the hair follicles have died off.

This is usually taken place in two ways:

FUE – Follicular unit extraction

FUT – Follicular unit transplantation

Among these two techniques, the most commonly used for the hair transplant is Follicular Unit Extraction. In this technique, the individual hair follicle is removed and transplanted to the hair deficient area.

In Follicular Unit Transplantation technique, a strip of hair is removed and transplanted at the required area.

Who should opt for a hair transplant?

Only those people can go in for a hair transplant treatment that has:

Hair loss in patches

Genetic hair loss

Hair loss due to trauma

Hairless scars in hair growing areas

The absence of mustache and beard since birth

Who should not opt for a hair transplant?

Those suffering from systemic disorders such as uncontrolled diabetes and liver dysfunction, hair loss due to medications, women having a wide-spread pattern of hair loss all over the scalp etc should avoid undergoing in for a hair transplant.

Things to be looked upon before the surgery:

There are certain aspects need to be considered before undergoing a hair restoration surgery. They include:

Allergy test

Routine blood test

Lives function tests

Donor hair area examination

Quitting alcohol, smoking or tobacco at least one week prior to the surgery and until three weeks after.